And. Stretch this line with the rules by the seat. Being recipes for success the strategies that make a difference. Baking bread on d. W. This news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes is drowning in Plastic Waste we speak to the woman whos trying to make a countrys government. Pick me. Out back by thousands also coming out. Revitalizing nairobis colonial era library me that has reading life into the building its books and its reputation. Thanks for joining us we start today with a story of one womans bottle to ban plastic in guyana rubbish much of it plastic is often dumped in the streets due to insufficient bins and rubbish collection of plastics block dreams that eventually end up in the ocean and now. Korea has launched a petition to get plastics banned in her country was victorian a bit but best heres more ghanas plastic menace. The fact of Plastic Waste this is a common sight on beaches across ghana Plastic Waste which wasnt properly disposed of washes ashore blocking dra
exists to make it a painless, cost free transition, i think we are many years away from that with plastics but i think there are three clear things that are happening through technology companies and governments. i think the first is that we need to make recycled plastic cheaper than virgin plastic and thus the major barrier at the moment everyone is working on. emerging economies need to spend about $600 billion on modern waste management systems, that s a particularly important issue. the second thing is it is about reusing plastic before we need to recycle it or produce it so a circular economy which will take a long time. the third and probably most exciting thing is the breakthrough technologies that are completely different alternative materials to plastic, that s a lot of the work that we are funding. it plastic, that s a lot of the work that we are funding. plastic, that s a lot of the work that we are funding. it sounds as if ou have that we are funding. it sounds as if you h
man. n ego. no fear. i m not looking down. he was just a guy asking the questions we would have asked. did you know this he purchased these weapons? no, i wish i did know. oh, how he went there. this is where that garbage winds up. much of it plastic. one day trekking to the far reaches of the globe and the next there s more than just cattle. there s a big cat. reporter: discovering magic in our own backwards. we re headed out to the western cut. how do you feel when you see this plastic? it s standing on her head. reporter: he introduced us to the most wonderful humans. it s eerie to be here. uh-uh feel their presence right now. you feel like a young rooster. reporter: characters we d never forget.
my name is tom and i m the founder and ceo of te rra cycle. this company says it s got the answer. it wants to eliminate the idea of waste. set up in the us in 2001, terracycle calls itself a global leader in recycling. one of its most high profile partnerships in the uk was with walkers, following the discovery of that crisp packet on a cornish beach. working with big brands, it says it can recycle the unrecyclable. from cigarette butts to chewing gum and everything in between. sending it to places like this so it can then be turned into things like this. it guarantees nothing is sent to landfill or incinerated. the company says it s already recycled more than seven billion items worldwide, much of it plastic that most councils don t want us to put